urbanbreez wrote:Yoda's just trying to be a modern day Robin Hood. Should have walked out and gave the chicken (why the he77 are you buying chicken at a grocery store?) to the first homeless person you saw.

I don't mind the fried chicken at some of the grocery stores around here.

Well, any fried chicken is good right out of the fryer. I could anticipating Vons being on par with Albertson's, being decent in flavor in all, but nothing really special. Then again, I guess I'm a bit spoiled because there's a fantastic Chinese poultry deli near my house that makes excellent Cantonese chicken and roast duck. I also head down to Popeye's every now and then.

The Artful Dodger wrote:First off, grocery store fried chicken is lousy for the most part. I'm talking about Albertson's and K-Mart, pretty darn horrible. I haven't had any of that for eons and I've never bought fried chicken from a grocery store ever.

Hold up....you buy fried chicken from K-Mart And when did K-Mart become a grocery store? There hasn't been one in my area for 8-10 years.

I guess it depends on my mood, and perhaps the setting. Here are two examples:

I forgot some small thing in my grocery cart once and found it when I was putting my bags in after having already paid. I immediately told the guy (the asst. manager) who said to "Go ahead." He said I spend enough money at that store that this one thing wouldn't hurt. So there I paid in full.

A few months ago I was doing a mock draft over on the Football side, and I hit Submit on a pick. About two seconds after hitting the button I realized I should have done something else, and since nobody had been in the thread (it was later at night or something) I redid the pick. Of course, there are people who have picks emailed to them so this was discovered, and some people were pretty pissed. At the moment it seemed like a little thing, but it turned out to be pretty big, and people left the mock because of it.

In the grocery store setting, I would never have intentionally walked out without paying for something. In the mock draft setting, I thought it would be OK to redo a pick I screwed up. Two similar situations, two different results.

If it were a one-time grocery store thing, I would most likely alert the clerk, if I were in the moral mood that I am usually in.

HOWEVER, in college, we were continually screwed by our cafeteria service. We found out we were charged differently for the same orders, and overall we were nailed for our food (which they pretty much had a monopoly over). So we would come up with tricks to get things by the cashiers. We wouldn't pocket stuff -- nothing that would be outright obvious stealing. We'd do things like put milk in our cereal just to the point where you couldn't see it in the bowl, and then fill up a cup of milk and tell em' that that was for the cereal so they wouldn't charge you for it.

The Artful Dodger wrote:First off, grocery store fried chicken is lousy for the most part. I'm talking about Albertson's and K-Mart, pretty darn horrible. I haven't had any of that for eons and I've never bought fried chicken from a grocery store ever.

Hold up....you buy fried chicken from K-Mart And when did K-Mart become a grocery store? There hasn't been one in my area for 8-10 years.

When I was a teenager, a K-Mart opened up in my neighborhood. Prior to that, my family and I had never stepped foot in a K-Mart, let alone a Super K with produce section, full service deli, just like any old supermarket chain. The novelty wore off after a month or two since it opened and I think one part of it had to do with K-Mart's lemon pepper fried chicken being so bad. I mean, at least Albertson's doesn't do anything experimental with their chicken. Never had it again and I haven't been to a K-Mart or any one-stop shop supermarket in forever.

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